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To run unit tests (assuming unix-style commandline, adjust as needed for windows):
Python 2.4 or greater is required since the unit tests use decorators.
cd into the SQLAlchemy distribution directory.
Set up the PYTHONPATH:
export PYTHONPATH=./test/
The unittest framework will automatically prepend './lib/' to sys.path. this forces the local
version to run, bypassing any setuptools-installed installations (a PYTHONPATH setting, referencing
a local directory of python scripts, does not override setuptools-installed eggs anymore, unfortunately.
refer comments on this to distutils-SIG).
To run all tests:
python test/alltests.py
Help is available via:
python test/alltests.py --help
usage: alltests.py [options] files...
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--dburi=DBURI database uri (overrides --db)
--db=DB prefab database uri (sqlite, sqlite_file, postgres,
mysql, oracle, oracle8, mssql)
--mockpool use mock pool
--verbose full debug echoing
--noecho Disable SQL statement echoing
--quiet be totally quiet
--nothreadlocal dont use thread-local mod
--enginestrategy=ENGINESTRATEGY
engine strategy (plain or threadlocal, defaults to SA
default)
Any unittest module can be run directly from the module file (same commandline options):
python test/orm/mapper.py
Additionally, to run a speciic test within the module, specify it as ClassName.methodname:
python test/orm/mapper.py MapperTest.testget